European Practitioner Achievement Award in Applying Environmental Economics 2016: Christiana Figueres and Laurence Tubiana

Ms Christiana Figueres is the winner of the EAERE European Practitioner Achievement Award in Applying Environmental Economics 2016. EAERE has conferred this Award to Ms Figueres in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the comprehensive preparation and the successful completion of the Paris Climate Agreement at the COP 21, bringing all nations into a common cause to combat climate change, based on their historic, current and future responsibilities.

Christiana Figueres is the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn, Germany, since 2010. She played a pivotal role in successfully reframing international climate negotiations and guiding the process towards the agreement at COP 21. She holds a master’s degree of the London School of Economics and has worked extensively with the private sector. She has been a UN negotiator since 1995 and achieved developing country support and approval of the Kyoto Protocol and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

See below Ms Figueres’ video-message:

EAERE Awards 2016 – Ms Christiana Figueres

Prof. Laurence Tubiana is the winner of the EAERE European Practitioner Achievement Award in Applying Environmental Economics 2016. EAERE has conferred this Award to Prof. Tubiana in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the comprehensive preparation and the successful completion of the Paris Climate Agreement at the COP 21, bringing all nations into a common cause to combat climate change, based on their historic, current and future responsibilities.

Laurence Tubiana is professor and director of the Sustainable Development Center at Sciences Po Paris but has worked now for almost five years outside academia, first as chairwoman of the French committee on France’s energy future and afterwards as ambassador for the COP 21 in Paris. She created IDDRI (Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales) with a focus on global environmental issues and has been involved in many committees, including important expert groups of the European Union.